Re: [PATCH] vsock: Make transport the proto owner

From: David Miller
Date: Mon May 05 2014 - 13:14:58 EST


From: Andy King <acking@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 15:20:43 -0700

> Right now the core vsock module is the owner of the proto family. This
> means there's nothing preventing the transport module from unloading if
> there are open sockets, which results in a panic. Fix that by allowing
> the transport to be the owner, which will refcount it properly.
>
> Includes version bump to 1.0.1.0-k
>
> Passes checkpatch this time, I swear...
>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Please do not explicitly CC: stable for networking submissions, instead please
just ask me to queue it up for -stable submission since I handle networking
-stable myself.

> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Andy King <acking@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
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